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Iraqi forces on Sunday broke through to the town of Amerli, which was besieged by ISIS, where thousands of people have been trapped for over two months with dwindling food and water. “Our forces entered Amerli and broke the siege,” security spokesman Lieutenant General Qassem Atta told AFP. Iraqi security …

 ISLAMABAD: Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of protesters led by Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chief Dr Tahirul Qadri and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan as they marched toward the Prime Minister House in the federal capital. At least 7 people have been killed and 70 …

Muslim leaders gathered Monday on the steps of Dearborn City Hall to strongly condemn ISIS, saying the militant group in Iraq and Syria doesn’t represent Islam or Muslims. ISIS members are “crazy criminals who are abusing our religion,” said Imam Mohammed Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn …

A Turkish delegation comprised of officials from Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Committee and head of Turks Abroad and Related Communities directorate of the Turkish Prime Ministry started a two-day visit to Germany yesterday to inquire about the extent of attacks and suspicion of arson. Their first visit was to Berlin’s …

Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials. The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the …

More than a dozen people have been killed in twin bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. At least fifteen people lost their lives in the bomb explosions in a busy commercial district in northern Baghdad on Monday. More than twenty other Iraqi people were also injured in the deadly …

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down an Israeli spy drone over the Iranian sky before the unmanned aerial vehicle reached Natanz nuclear facility. The IRGC’s Aerospace Force has intercepted and shot down an Israeli spy drone, the IRGC announced in a statement on Sunday. It added that …

Britain must prepare to ally itself with Iran to combat the “shared threat” of extremists in Iraq and Syria who want to create “a terrorist state” that could extend to “the shores of the Mediterranean,” David Cameron has said. Suggesting that it was now in the UK’s national interest to …

An Israeli ship subject of a pro-Palestinian protest has docked, but demonstrations at the port of Oakland in California continue after between 2,000 and 3,000 pro-Palestinian activists streamed towards the port entrance on Saturday, chanting and waving flags. It remains unclear whether the ship’s cargo has been unloaded. The protesters …

Police chiefs have been forced to confirm for the first time the identities of two undercover police officers who fathered children with campaigners from groups they had been sent to infiltrate. One of them is Bob Lambert, the former head of the Muslim Contact Unit, who established close working relationships …